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...delegates, have no power to speak for their churches) packed the big (10,000 seats) Cleveland Public Auditorium for a busy program of speeches, resolutions, pageants and hymns. So popular were the talks that once, when the convention newspaper carried a notice that extra copies would be available, a queue lined up for them at 6:30 the next morning...
...Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...
...began going out the hatch. They had to dive down toward the floor, crawl into the canvas funnel and up through the hatch. "We formed a queue as though we were waiting for a bus," said one survivor. The trip to the surface took 40 seconds. After he got outside, Engine Room Artificer Frank Mossman was snagged by a piece of deck rigging. "I was caught on it for about a minute, but it seemed an eternity," he said...
...Playing. Still far out in front in the circulation parade is Britain's (and the world's) biggest newspaper, News of the World (circ. 8,320,000). In one recent issue, News of the World readers were served up such titillating headlines as WOMAN SCREAMED IN BUS QUEUE, CLERK WITH SPLIT MIND IN 4 A.M. HOTEL SCENE; UNCLE AND PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases...
...queue, thinks the New Statesman's chronicler, "must answer some deep-seated need of our time...No one can push in ahead by sheer strength and skill and win the prize-a fortune or a dozen boxes of chocolates-which the majority won't get. But equally, no one will be quite left out-all will get their two ounces of jujubes* by mere waiting and shuffling along at intervals...